Cell Phones........

I didn't even own a cell phone until I was 42, and no one was texting then.....




I didn't realize how prevalent texting had become, until I started working at a restaurant again. All the 20 somethings were never without their phones....I was puzzled by this at first....I mean, I made it through over a quarter century of working in restaurants, without ever having a cell phone. What's the big deal? We somehow managed to make all of our plans for the evening without them.....what's going on?



The managers were forever on every one's ass about cell phone usage while working.... yet some managers were constantly pulling out their own cell phones...do as I say, not as I do....right.....do you really think you can enforce a rule and not follow it yourselves? Apparently so....one manager had a bad habit of pulling his phone out in full view of everyone, (good example bud), yeah, we're not really gonna follow this rule as long as you keep shoving your phone usage in our face. This is the same manager who threatened to drop any one's cell phone in the deep fryer, if he caught them using it. I'm not sure, but I don't foreign objects like a phone, are supposed to mingle in the deep fryer with someone's order of calamari.



At least we try to be discrete, like, we hide in the netherlands of the kitchen....or go to a corner of the restaurant where we know you can't see us....or go out to the so-called smoking lounge, behind the big wooden gate by the dumpster.



It took a while, but I found myself caught up in the texting frenzy. This shit is great! I just wish I was as fast as the 20 somethings are.



Then one server broadened my vocabulary.....I was sending a somewhat sexy text one day...and she informed that this type of communication is called "Sexting." Gotta love these guys...they make up a word for everything.

I also stumbled across another, yet I'm sure totally unexpected use for cell phones. Collateral. I got tired of loaning out my wine key, never to see it again....so I would take their cell phone as collateral.....never lost a wine key after that.